Drayton Valley Museum hopes to identify early residents
They are photographs of men standing amongst timber, high school graduates smiling, school children lined up in a neat row for a class photo — and all of them are unidentified Drayton Valley residents.
The Drayton Valley Museum is trying to change that, taking on a mammoth challenge of identifying nearly 100 early settlers amongst hundreds of photographs taken between 1908 to 1970.
“We have the photos in our collection, and we keep finding more photos and we want to document the history of Drayton Valley as best we can so we need to know who’s in these photos, who was here at the time,” said Curator Kristan Schamuhn.
Schamuhn, along with volunteers at the museum, have been trying to identify people as well as buildings photographed for five years now, however she admits that with each passing year knowledge may be slipping away.